Intel GPU booted for first time

[porina]

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Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan told investors on an analyst call that they have powered on the Intel Xe DG1 graphics card for the first time in the lab.

https://www.legitreviews.com/intels-first-discrete-graphics-card-powered-on-dg1-closer-to-launch_214904

 

I'll keep it short and to the point. Intel have booted their new GPU for the first time. Presumably up to now they're working on simulations or other prototype solutions. It is a significant milestone that physical hardware is working. We now wait and see how performance goes and if we have a meaningful 3rd player in the GPU market.

[TheNaitsyrk]

Looking forward to see what they can muster. 

Nothing will be optimised (unless they plan to make it so it's like integrated graphics). But I hope it's good.

[GoldenLag]

Good to see them have ES ready in lab for testing. A long time untill launch still and that allows for many revisions for clockspeed and in-silicon improvements. 

 

Tho honestly i wouldnt be suprised if there will be delays from the highly speculative "summer" launch. 

 

Could allways discover hardware flaws late that delays production. Hopefully everything goes smoothly

[LeSheen]

Hoping for more competition in the highend gpu market. But I think they will aim for midrange or budget. Would be really nice to have some real competition in the 4k/3440x1440 cards.

[samcool55]

I reeaaaly doubt they are going to launch next year.

I really doubt you can develop a decent GPU driver in 1 year because that's going to be the tricky part here. I think.

 

[Master Disaster]

51 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

I reeaaaly doubt they are going to launch next year.

I really doubt you can develop a decent GPU driver in 1 year because that's going to be the tricky part here. I think.

 

They already have the base written, I'd imagine their dedicated hardware will be based on the current onboard hardware in some way.

 

They shouldn't have to start from scratch.

[RejZoR]

Cool. Looking forward to Intel graphic cards.

[Arika]

3 hours ago, samcool55 said:

I reeaaaly doubt they are going to launch next year.

I really doubt you can develop a decent GPU driver in 1 year because that's going to be the tricky part here. I think.

 

i mean, i's not like they haven't been making GPUs and writing GPU drivers for the last decade

[CTR640]

26 minutes ago, Tegos said:

Oh hey, Team Blue finally making it into the GPU market.

[OBLIGATORY RGB JOKE]

R (AMD)

G (nVidia)

B (Intel)

[pas008]

1 hour ago, Arika S said:

i mean, i's not like they haven't been making GPUs and writing GPU drivers for the last decade

 

arent they the largest gpu producer even if they are igpus

 

wonder if they are considered largest with including cellphone/tablet chips

[porina]

54 minutes ago, pas008 said:

arent they the largest gpu producer even if they are igpus

For the PC space at least. Could only find unit data to 2017 in a quick search, Intel were somewhere below 70%, nvidia somewhat above AMD for the rest.

 

54 minutes ago, pas008 said:

wonder if they are considered largest with including cellphone/tablet chips

Again hard to find some solid numbers, but PCs look like they're in the magnitude of tens of millions a year, whereas smartphones are over a billion a year. If we take each smartphone chip to have a GPU included, Intel wont even be close to significant.

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, pas008 said:

 

arent they the largest gpu producer even if they are igpus

 

wonder if they are considered largest with including cellphone/tablet chips

Technically every consumer Intel CPU sold is also a GPU.

[porina]

6 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Technically every consumer Intel CPU sold is also a GPU.

Except F versions.

[S w a t s o n]

This would have been fabricated on 10nm right?

[RejZoR]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Technically every consumer Intel CPU sold is also a GPU.

That's like saying every car with a massive spoiler is a hyper car...

[Princess Luna]

nVidia CPU when? I want my nVidia Core n9 9900K + Intel ITX 3080 Super Ti rig by 2022.

[Murasaki]

6 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

nVidia CPU when? I want my nVidia Core n9 9900K + Intel ITX 3080 Super Ti rig by 2022.

I want a 3dfx comeback.

[pas008]

1 hour ago, porina said:

For the PC space at least. Could only find unit data to 2017 in a quick search, Intel were somewhere below 70%, nvidia somewhat above AMD for the rest.

 

Again hard to find some solid numbers, but PCs look like they're in the magnitude of tens of millions a year, whereas smartphones are over a billion a year. If we take each smartphone chip to have a GPU included, Intel wont even be close to significant.

true looks like powervr, adreno, and mali gpu variants

 

after i typed it I googled my heart out, surprised you can actually find the stats

[Master Disaster]

35 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

That's like saying every car with a massive spoiler is a hyper car...

Not really, a shitty car with a big spoiler cannot do 200mph where as Intel CPUs actually do contain GPUs.

[Curious Pineapple]

23 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

I want a 3dfx comeback.

nVidia bought them out and used the technology (SLi), so technically they didn't go anywhere.

[dizmo]

Sweet. Hopefully it comes out next year and it has solid performance. I'd love to have more players in the graphics space. 

 

2019 rig update: 2600x + 1080

2020 rig update: 9700k + 2080s

2021 rig update: 10700k + Intel GPU

 

Good. Good. 

 

[RejZoR]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

Not really, a shitty car with a big spoiler cannot do 200mph where as Intel CPUs actually do contain GPUs.

GPU's that are so shitty it's a miracle if they can run "eSports" game smoothly on any level. But hey, it's a "GPU".

[SteveGrabowski0]

10 hours ago, LeSheen said:

Hoping for more competition in the highend gpu market. But I think they will aim for midrange or budget. Would be really nice to have some real competition in the 4k/3440x1440 cards.

Shit, I'd be happy to have competition in the midrange market considering a $400 Radeon 5700 XT is double the performance but also double the price that the RX 480 launched at three years ago. I miss the days of increasing performance per dollar in new gens of hardware.

[Dedayog]

Sweet, a third player that is known for high prices and lack of innovation.

 

Even if they do compete, the consumer just has another choice who to overpay.

[Master Disaster]

13 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

GPU's that are so shitty it's a miracle if they can run "eSports" game smoothly on any level. But hey, it's a "GPU".

A GPU is a GPU, no matter how shitty.